Buffalo, NY Pays Health Insurance Costs for Dead Employees!

Wow, what a great benefit... even after your dead your health insurance premiums are still paid for! Wait, what good does that do you? It sounds pretty funny but the Mayor of Buffalo, NY is not even cracking a smile about the mistake of his city's human resources department.

According to www.publicbroadcasting.net,"A city audit reveals a starling and costly finding. Buffalo city comptroller Andrew San Filippo has uncovered millions of dollars of overpayments for health insurance premiums for city employees. But those overpayments include nearly $2 million to insure city employees who had died, some as long as four years ago."

"The city audit indicates more than a half million in duplicate payments were made for about 250 sanitation and water workers. The payments are the responsibility of the city's Human Resources Department."